Given the size, wealth, and density of India, I expected the list of underway and upcoming train projects to be much longer and ambitious. Of course, the hyperloop project is… special.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_rail_transport_in_India

I also expected there to be more high speed rail going on. There’s at least one actual HSR route being constructed, but a very long list of “maybe nots” built up. Once the single route goes into service, India will have 300km more HSR than the US does (which is zero):

https://themetrorailguy.com/high-speed-rail-projects-in-india/

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That’ll do! Let’s hit the pub.

Top 3 for adults. Top 2 for children.

The downtown Wien area is gorgeous! They’ve got a good transit system to start with, so there’s no reason more of the city can’t become pedestrianized. I haven’t been there for a while, but I hope they’re making progress on turning the city into a better place for people.

A quick search turns up at least some efforts:
https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/mariahilferstrasse-pedestrianized-street-vienna/
https://www.wien.gv.at/english/transportation/road-construction/kaerntnerstrasse/

The city does score well on urban mobility:
https://www.oliverwymanforum.com/mobility/urban-mobility-readiness-index/vienna.html

I had one of the 10" eeePC machines for years. That thing was a tank. It did everything I needed it to, especially weird networking configurations. The battery also lasted over 6 hours. I mostly ran Crunchbang #! Linux on it.

I don’t think I could live on a 10" screen anymore, but back in the day it was a dream machine.

That’s a phenomenal idea, and one that many other cities have used to make their venues usable for big events.

We used to ride the MAX train into events in Portland. Trying to drive to a huge stadium and park is just a huge mess for everyone involved, including the surrounding city that’s impacted by it.

TriMet would run extra trains at the start & end of the event. Back then the stadium was also in the Fareless Square area so you didn’t even have to pay. Yes, the trains were packed, but that’s a good thing. Over time they would run more and more trains, and now the area has trams as well. Downtown event arenas are 100% doable with modern public transit.

To sum up: the referendum to make the core of Berlin largely car free is proceeding past court challenges. If enacted, it would make Berlin the largest pedestrianized city area in the world by a long shot.

Nice. Germany has some good visa programs for skilled workers. If you’ve got the credentials, the consulates will work with you on immigration and it’s not a very onerous system.

Ma’am: you must be new here. Of course the SCOTUS is outright in league with monied interests. The only evidence you need is Corporate Personhood combined with Citizen’s United.

X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was amazing. Great campaign with secret quests and the multiplayer!!! Hours of combat fun in the dorm.

The hotel itself was nice, and the balcony had a great view. The problem was the mattress. It was so soft that it provided zero back support. No other options were available.

The net result was both my wife and I ended up with month long back muscle spasms. It taught us a lot about how to resolve back issues, but it’s not a lesson I wanted from a relatively expensive hotel in Leavenworth, Washington.

I’m already on the road ahead of you.

Spent 30 years campaigning, calling, sign waving, writing letters, donating to candidates, causes, and groups. Even ran for office a couple of times. Every year it gets worse and I’ve got kids. They don’t need to live in a dystopian place so we’re on the road. Headed to a developed nation. Greener pastures,.but it’s worth a try.

Germany is actually doing reasonably well on biking infrastructure growth. They haven’t hit NL scale overhauls,.but the rate of biking there is climbing fast.

Very few of the pots in my city are city owned. They’re all private. They refuse to build anything else since using it as a parking lot has very low taxes so the profits are good, plus the land value goes up so just waiting makes them millions.

Tax them like crazy or all you get is downtown Houston in the 1980s.

A) this is RT propaganda under the hood

B) I’m betting I could find quite a few US soldiers (plus the Secretary of Defense) who have prevalent Nazi symbology tattoos and/or post pro Nazi materials online.

Every city should be repurposing every above ground parking lot.

Housing, open plazas, parks, transit systems, 5+1 housing everywhere.

If you want a parking lot in a city it should be below ground and taxed out the ying-yang.

Because the ® party is okay with it. They’re fine with you being a horrific person until you get caught by the public.

Prove me wrong ® party: turn in some of your pedos voluntarily to gain some street cred. You’ve got plenty of them to go around.

I ran into a guy driving a F650 as his daily commuter when he was going for coffee at Starbucks. He made sure to tell every person behind the counter how great of a vehicle it was.

He had to jockey it to get into the parking lot.

While the F250 is less common than the F150 we’re still faced with a plague of oversized, dangerous, and ecological driving disasters on our roads.

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Show Toronto how Paris built 13 tram lines in the last 20 years. Make sure to do it in Parisian French too.

Of course my city is delaying the construction of a fucking BUS line to 2030 because the freeway build out (which is about 3 miles away from the someday bus line) is delayed. Why these two are connected, the public isn’t sure. Given my city’s ineptitude, at least Toronto is trying at all so I can’t throw any bricks.

Edit: but we did declare a downtown parking garage a historic building and put it on the historic register so we have that going for us.